Profile on ‘Teach Learn Lead’
Teach Learn Lead is a virtual network sponsored by the National Board. They recently posted a profile of my work. I invite you to read it, and to become part of the network....
Teaching
Inspiration, Imitation, and Individuality
Re-posted from my EdWeek Teacher blog “Road Trips in Education” 8/30/15. My year away from teaching high school English brought me to almost fifty California cities and towns, over ...
What is the Future of EdCamp?
Edcamp is a great model of grassroots organization and participant leadership- so what happens when larger numbers of people, organizations and institutions latch on that idea?...
Equity and Teacher Hiring
Plenty of people are ready to tell schools and teachers what to do to solve problems in education, but pretty short on ideas for closing the equity and opportunity gaps that stack the odds against cer...
Drumming Up a Shift in Thinking
My recent vacation produced a valuable lesson about life and learning, a reminder of how hard it is to turn off expectations and simply be open to what you find. The lesson began at the moment I chang...
Identity Safety First
Discussions of curriculum and instruction are integral to our profession, but at times we neglect some of the foundational concerns that enable or inhibit learning in the first place. That's the value...
Make Time for ‘Defies Measurement’ (full review)
In "Defies Measurement," Shannon Puckett has produced a documentary that illustrates what has been lost, and what we stand to lose, through the misuse of standardized test results to drive education r...
Travels End, Journey Continues
After visiting 63 schools spanning almost 900 miles of California, I'm done with the road trips - but the learning continues. ...
Focus on Testing Reflects Eugenics Legacy
We are the inheritors of a complex history, some of it quite negative; the heavy stone of the American eugenics movement may have sunk to the bottom of the lake, but the ripples travel on whether or n...
Reimagining Teaching: A Dialogue Continued
While useful for understanding the current context of the teaching profession, the discussion was short on details about how the profession itself might change in the future. Also worth noting - it wa...